gift mugs make great coffee mug gifts Custom Decorated Ceramic White Photo Coffee Gift Mugs Step-by-Step Instructions for compressing (zipping) digitized art How do I prepare my computer files for easy compression? Where can I obtain file compressors? or a completely free zip compressor? It is not difficult to compress files, just that the wording WinZip uses is a bit confusing. With WinZip running select: "New" and up comes a window called: "New Archive". Where it says: "File Name" (at the bottom) type in the name of what the compressed .zip file should be called. For example: mydesign.zip In the field called: "Create In" indicate the directory where you want the to be created zip file to be stored. Make it an easily recognizable sub-directory name, for example, "sendart", in your "Temp" directory so that you can find it easily later on. Then hit OK. A new window opens up called: "Add" and where it says: "Add From", you just look for the uncompressed, original file you want to send us from your disk. Then hit: "Add". Your newly created .zip file should now be in the directory you created under the name: mydesign.zip. For example in: C:\temp\sendart\mydesign.zip. It does not matter what your original file was called because when we un-zip your mydesign.zip file we'll get your original file including its original name. This "mydesign.zip" file is what you attach to an e-mail to us. That's all. P.S. There are several compressors that are easy to use and are also very popular, such as: Nico Mak's WinZip Mijenix ZipMagic Pacific Gold Coast TurboZip97 PKZip Nico Mak's WinZip can be obtained here. A completely free, freeware zip-compressor can be found here: Back to:   How to prepare your digital art work Compressing files before e-mailing Sending compressed files as attachments to an e-mail Up-loading your compressed files to our FTP server Sending your files on removable disks How to scan hard-copy art to obtain digital art files that can be used for mug decorations